| THURSDAY 10.1.2009 |
GERMANIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES LECTURE
Almut-Barbara Renger (Visiting Scholar, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University). "Europe Europa: Between Myth and Continental Allegory. On a Complex and Multifaceted Relationship, from Herodotus to Georg Kaiser" |
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CIVILIZATIONS OF ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
Andrea Cucchiarelli (Università di Roma). "Virgil and the Invention of the 'Augustan Age': Divine Models and Political Language in the Eclogues and Georgics" |
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| FRIDAY 10.2.2009 |
SHAKESPEAREAN STUDIES & WOMEN AND CULTURE IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINARS)
Scott Maisano (University of Massachusetts, Boston). "Performing Heliodorus: Queen Anna's Dark Conceit in Jonson’s 'The Masque of Blackness'" Reception at 5:30 p.m. |
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| MONDAY 10.5.2009 |
CHINA HUMANITIES (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
Ning Ma (Tufts University). "Jin Ping Mei and Robinson Crusoe: A Horizontal Comparison" |
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BUDDHIST STUDIES FORUM (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
John Makransky (Boston College). “Buddhist Critical-constructive Reflection”
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"MULTICULTURALISM OR COSMOPLITANISM?"
Ulrich Beck (Professor of Sociology at Munich's Ludwig-Maximilian University and the London School of Economics) in conversation with Homi Bhabha and Mohsen Mostafavi. Co-sponsored with the Graduate School of Design. |
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| TUESDAY 10.6.2009 |
PRINTS AND THE PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
Susan Dackerman (Harvard Art Museum). An introduction to and overview of the exhibition "Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe" |
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| THURSDAY 10.8.2009 |
MEDIEVAL STUDIES (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
James Simpson (Harvard University). “Learn to Die: Late Medieval Images Before the Law” Co-sponsored with English Department Medieval Colloquium |
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| TUESDAY 10.13.2009 |
THE NORTON LECTURES
Orhan Pamuk (winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature) on "The Naive and Sentimental Novelist." Lecture 3: "Character, Time, Plot" |
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LAURO DE BOSIS LECTURES ON ITALIAN RENAISSANCE ART
Rudolf Preimesberger (Freie Universität). “’Obliquam namque fecit...’: Anecdotes and Caravaggio's ‘Deposition’”
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| WEDNESDAY 10.14.2009 |
WITH THE MUSEUM IN MIND
Orhan Pamuk (Winner of the 2006 Novel Prize for Literature) in conversation with Homi Bhabha (Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities; Director of the Humanities Center at Harvard), Melissa Chiu (Director, Asia Society Museum; Vice President,
Global Art Programs at the Asia Society), Glenn Lowry (Director, Museum of Modern Art), Helen Molesworth (Maisie K. and James R. Houghton Curator of
Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museum) |
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EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE AND CULTURE (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
Ellen Harris (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). "Music as Philanthropy: Hearing Handel in the Eighteenth Century" |
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PSYCHOANALYTIC PRACTICES (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
A reading of Freud's "The Moses of Michaelangelo" |
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| THURSDAY 10.15.2009 |
MEDIEVAL STUDIES (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
Thomas Kelly (Harvard University). “An Introduction to Liturgy” Co-sponsored with English Department Medieval Colloquium |
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COGNITIVE THEORY AND THE ARTS & VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINARS)
Isobel Armstrong (Birkbeck College).
"Sense and Sensibility: Henry and William James and The Golden Bowl" |
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| MONDAY 10.19.2009 |
CHINA HUMANITIES (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
Eugenio Menegon (Boston University).
“Memento Mori: Preparing for Death in China and Europe during the Early Modern Era” |
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MEDIEVAL STUDIES (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
Brigitte Bedos-Rezak (New York University).
"Corporeal Boundaries in Medieval Texts: The Charter Evidence" |
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| TUESDAY 10.20.2009 |
THE NORTON LECTURES
Orhan Pamuk (winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature) on "The Naive and Sentimental Novelist." Lecture 4: "Pictures and Things" |
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HISPANIC CULTURES (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
Gonzalo Aguilar (Universidad de Buenos Aires). "El que debe morir: El sacrificio en la cultura brasileña de Gonçalves Dias a Hélio Oiticica" |
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MODERN GREEK LITERATURE AND CULTURE (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
Poetry reading by Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke. Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke was born in Athens in 1939. She studied foreign
languages and literature at the universities of Nice, Athens, and Geneva. In
1962 she was awarded the First Prize for Poetry of the City of Geneva. She
received two grants from the Ford Foundation (1972, 1975), as well as the Greek
National Prize for Poetry (1985) and the Greek Academy’s Poetry Prize (2000).
She attended the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa in
1974-75 and was a Fulbright Visiting Lecturer at Harvard, Utah, and San
Francisco State Universities in 1982, as well as a Fellow at the Program in
Hellenic Studies at Princeton in 1987. She has published fourteen books of
poetry as well as four collected volumes. She is fluent in English, French, and
Russian and is an acclaimed translator of Seamus Heaney and Alexander Pushkin,
among others. Her work has been translated into French, German, Italian,
Spanish, Swedish, Polish, Serbian, Dutch, Bulgarian, Hebrew, and English. |
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ISLAM IN THE WEST LECTURE SERIES
Nahid Kabir (author, _Muslims in Australia: Immigration, Race Relations and Cultural History_) “Muslims in Australia and Britain” |
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| WEDNESDAY 10.21.2009 |
GENDER AND SEXUALITY (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
Karen Hansen (Professor of Sociology & Women's and Gender Studies, Chair of Sociology, Brandeis University) and Grey Osterud (Independent Scholar). "The Meanings of Land to Women in Rural America"*
Abstract: Using cases spanning the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, we explore the multiple meanings of landholding from the perspectives of Black women in the South, Native American and Scandinavian immigrant women on the Northern Plains, and European American and immigrant women in upstate New York. Through careful attention to the processes by which women came to own and use land to support themselves and their families, we can better understand the ways in which gender and race-ethnicity shaped their lives and how they conceived of themselves as social and economic actors. |
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HISTORY OF THE BOOK (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
Daniel Raff (Wharton School, History Department, and Law School, University of Pennsylvania; National Bureau of Economic Research). "The Book-of-the-Month Club: A Reconsideration".
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| THURSDAY 10.22.2009 |
MEDIEVAL STUDIES (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
Brigitte Bedos-Rezak (New York University). Houghton Library Workshop: "From Archive to Collection: Medieval Charters and the Contingency of Interpretation" Two sessions. Pre-registration required. Email jhamburg@fas.harvard.edu indicating which of the two sessions you prefer.
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MEDIEVAL STUDIES (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
Brigitte Bedos-Rezak (New York University). Houghton Library Workshop: "From Archive to Collection: Medieval Charters and the Contingency of Interpretation" Two sessions. Pre-registration required. Email jhamburg@fas.harvard.edu indicating which of the two sessions you prefer. |
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CROSS CULTURAL POETICS AND RHETORIC (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
Roger Allen (University of Pennsylvania). "Rewriting Literary History: The Case of Moroccan Fiction in Arabic" |
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MODERNISM (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
Nico Israel (Hunter College, City University of New York). "Unnamable History: Beckett, Smithson, Spirals, and Global Modernity" |
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| FRIDAY 10.23.2009 |
FRANCE AND THE WORLD & CROSS-CULTURAL POETICS AND RHETORIC (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINARS)
Abdellah Taia (Moroccan author). “Moroccan Fiction: Problems of Gender and Translation” Co-sponsored with Cross-Cultural Poetics and Rhetoric and The Program of Moroccan Studies, Center of Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. |
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PHILOSOPHY, POETRY, AND RELIGION (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
Paul Moyaert (Catholic University of Louvain). "The Curious Function of Courtly Love in Lacan's Seminar" |
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| MONDAY 10.26.2009 |
THE NORTON LECTURES
Orhan Pamuk (winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature) on "The Naive and Sentimental Novelist." Lecture 5: "Museums and Novels" |
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CULTURAL AND HUMANITARIAN AGENTS (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
Nidal al Azraq (author) and Nitin Sawhney (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). "Creative Empowerment of Marginalized Youth in Refugee Camps: Experiences and Lessons from the West Bank"
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| THURSDAY 10.29.2009 |
MUSIC DEPARTMENT: DEAN'S NOONTIME CONCERT SERIES
The Chiara Quartet
Webern: Fünf Sätze für Streichquartett
Brahms: Viola Quintet in G Major, Op. 111
with Roger Tapping, viola
Free and open to all. |
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JEWISH CULTURES AND SOCIETIES (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
Renven Hazan (Harvard University). "Israeli Politics Since the Rabin Assassination" |
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RENAISSANCE STUDIES (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
Dominique de Courcelles (Centre de la Recherche Scientifique, former president of the Société Française des Seiziémistes). "Precious Stones and Lapidaries in Renaissance Texts" (lecture in French) |
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VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
Annual Graduate Student Panel
Josh Olivier-Mason
Boston College
"'These Blurred Copies of Himself': T. H. Huxley and the Man/Animal Opposition."
Daniel Pollack-Pelzner
Harvard University
"'Poor wounded name': Tess, Hardy, Shakespeare."
Anne Moore
Tufts University
"Serial Addicts: Detection and Compulsion in The Moonstone and The Wire."
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| FRIDAY 10.30.2009 |
CELTIC LITERATURE AND CULTURE (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR)
Kristján Ahronson (Prifysgol Bangor University and University of Toronto). "Prehistory, Early Medieval Monasticism and Cave Sites: Archaeology and Celtic studies in Edinburgh and Toronto" |
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MUSIC DEPARTMENT: BLODGETT CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES
The Chiara Quartet
Prokofiev String Quartet No. 1
Webern Fünf Sätze für Streichquartett
Ulrich Kreppei Second String Quartet (world premiere)
Brahms Viola Quintet in G Major, Op. 111 with Roger Tapping, viola
Blodgett concerts are free but passes are required. Free passes available beginning two weeks prior to concert from Harvard Box Office in the Holyoke Center Arcade, Harvard Square. 617-496-2222.
Free parking for this concert available at Broadway garage, corner of Felton St. and Broadway. |
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| SATURDAY 10.31.2009 |
TRANSPACIFIC: AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE & BEYOND
A symposium to mark the publication of The Literature of Australia: An Anthology |
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THE ISLAND AND THE MAINLAND: A DIALOGUE ON MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE, 1949-2009
Featuring:
Ge Fei (Writer, Tsinghua University)
Huang Fayou (Writer, Nanjing University)
Dung Kai-cheung (Writer, Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Cheng Pei-kai (Writer, City University of Hong Kong)
Chu T'ien-wen (Writer)
Ko Yu-fen (Writer, National Cheng-chih University)
Liu Ke-hsiang (Writer)
*Please note that the discussion will be held in Chinese
for more information, contact Andy Rodekohr at rodekohr@fas.harvard.edu |
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